You'd think by this time you'd be used to how incredible Mads Mikelsen is. You'd be wrong. Even without the rest of the movie (which is very good), his performance alone is worth the watch. He plays this guy with dissociative identity disorder. Not 100% sure it's the actual term, also not sure this is what he actually is. In the beginning he's probably just autistic (or whatever the current term is), I don't think a kid thinking he is a viking is an actual identity. Not sure people thinking they are actual famous dead people fits this either, but whatever. When he plays it, you don't see the insanity in the character, you actually see the trauma that caused it, you see the defence mechanism, it's incredible. You never actually laugh AT Manfred, tough it would be easy, only at the situation. Around him is a host of just as crazy characters. The brown guy obsessed by the Holocaust, in one way or the other, and who thinks he is two Beatles, Bjorn from ABBA and Himmler, is definitely second in comic power. Even the less important new owners of their childhood house are developed and interesting. Though they're definitely weird. Who get implicated this much in other people's lives on a whim ? The recurring gags are awesome. Manfred stealing dogs, and him jumping out of cars or windows, as soon as he's called Manfred. The story, based on uncovering the hidden money and the brothers' childhood traumas, is also engaging. Most the trauma is being started by Anker absence, rekindling stuff repressed after the father's disappearance (though he was definitely not completely sane even before that, reason why the father was always angry at them). This explains his obsession with stealing dogs, by the death of their dog as kid. Quite the traumatic event with [spoiler]their father forcing them to get him killed to punish them[/spoiler]. The biggest reveal is not so surprising, as soon as Manfred says that Anker didn't remember the dog, it was clear [spoiler]the father was the same[/spoiler]. The side plot of bringing the Beatles back is cute but not that interesting, however this brings huge comedic power. It is great cinema. Both moving and hilarious, engaging story and characters, trauma, drama, all wrapped up in an original idea.

It's presumably a dark comedy but there's nothing to laugh about. The whole movie feels like it was written by a psychopath whoenjoys making his audience uncomfortable, especially through violence against women. If this were marketed as a trashy horror movie, it wouldn't have been so bad,but the attempt to make even the darkest and most senseless acts of cruel violence funny is really disgusting. There's no character in the movie who feels real or sympathetic; everyone is just a caricature of a bad, mentally ill person The main characters are just very annoying and frustrating.There is nothing thoughtful, interesting, or resolving in this piece of cheesy and cynical dreck.

This movie is filled with dark humour. Mads Mikkelsen is the name that dragged me into it. However, the supporting cast were amazing as well.

An exceptional movie！The relationship between the brothers is so touching.

A director whose amazing films are unmistakable sends a family to search for lost roots in the past. Only by returning to where they were both happy and sad can they understand that if every Viking's hand were cut off, they would all be the same! Kind, but sad. About humans